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Monday, June 10, 2013

Two Views

Sunday morning, just before 6 am, I was changing trains at the Smith & 9th St Station. If you have been paying attention you know that it is the highest subway station in the City, if not the world.

Behold the Sunrise.

another view of the canal, without the sun glare.

This morning I ran over the Canal. There was no sun and it was a putrid shade of green.

In the distance you can see the bridge was standing on about 30 hours earlier.

There was no sun today. In fact it just started raining when I took this photo. I ran 5 more miles and my shoes filled with water from the top.

The canal is full of raw sewage (IE: shit and piss). When it rains a lot what runoff from the street sewers mixes with the sewage and it all just goes into the canal, or the Hudson, or wherever. Our combined sewer system can't handle more than a few centimeters of rain at a time. A better explanation can be found at Pardon Me for Asking.

While we are on that subject, this was my Facebook Status this morning.

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I have probabally found a thoundsand dollars worth of metrocards, this list starts July 27, 2008

9-14-17 Since the spring I have found about $25 worth of cards. One of them had over $13 on it and I found it on the path along the belt Parkway while running a race there. It was a challenge to bend down and pick it up but I knew it would have value because it was so far from the subway

5-21-16 Found the card at the starting line of the Brooklyn Half. It will work till May 31

12-28-15: found the card on the floor in Sears that will work till January 10

Haven't been in the subway since May and I now pay cash to go on espresso ride

4-20-14: $35

4-11-14: $75

3-25-14: $50

3-2-14: a $35 card and a card that will work till the owner tell the MTA to stop deducting the money from his bank account. Both on the the course of a 5K

3-1-14: $20

2-4-14 $25

1-9-14: $50

12-20-13 $20 and a card that will work till 12-25

12-8-13: $25

12-5-13 $40

10-14-13: $50. (I think they have been cleaning the stations better since the fare went up in the Spring.)

9-16-13: $75 TODAY! mostly on a few recently expired cards.

9-1-13 $20, but I have had to spend $40.

7-17-13" $25 and a card with 6 days left on it.

7-7-13: $50

6-7-63: $15

5-22-13 $65 (one card with $49.05)

5-18-13 $20 (I have just been in the subway less lately)

4-1-13: $50

3-22-13: $30

3-17-13:$25

3-15-13: $30

3-8-13: $25

3-6-13: $35 (and the fact that new card cost an extra $ did not seem to have any effect)

3-1-13: $20 and a card that will last till 3-8

2-22-13: $25

1-27-13: $35 and a card that will work till 2-5 (it only lasted a day)

1-23-13: $40.00

1-14-13: $20

1-3-13: $13.13

12-31-12: $7.00 (It has been a great month)

12-28-12: $30 today!

12-25-12: $21.50 today!

12-24-12: $7.50

12-21-12: $59.00 ($45.25 on one card)

12-19-12: $25 and still riding free.

12-15-12 $50

12-8-12 a card that will work till 12-25

11-28-12: $15

11-26-12: $10.00

11-11-12: $25

10-17-12: $30

10-16-12: $40

10-9-12: $30

10-2-12: $7.50 and an unlimited that will last till 10-20

10-1-12: $25

9-15-12: $25

9-5-12: $25

8-27-12: $35

8-24-12: $40 and a $38 NYC Parking Card.

8-15-12: $25

7-10-12: $20

7-8-12: $50 (and still using unlimiteds)

6-19-12: $25 and I have been using a unlimited monthly since the beginning of June.

5-29-12: $50

5-11-12: $40

5-4-12: $30, and I have been riding free for the past 3 weeks on a monthly that I found

4-20-12: $25

4-5-12: $17 (just today)

4-2-12: $50

3-13-12: $35

2-29-12: $25

2-10-12 $60, been a good few weeks.

2-6-12: A Transit Check card that may work till 5-31 (worked till 2-20)

1-23-12: $40.00 another great day.

1-21-12: $6.00

1-18-12: $40 (today and yesterday!!)

1-16-12: $145. (I lost my cards, found them in the communal laundry room in my apartment building 2 days later.

1-11-12 $50... Yea!

1-2-12 $35 (27.45 on 1 card yesterday)

12-20-11: $45 (been lucky)

12-12-11: $15.00

12-2-11: $10.50

12-1-11: $40.00 ($37.45 on one recently expired card. People bring it to the booth, you can get a new one.)

11-28-11: $20.00

11-17-11: $25 ($14.75 on one card)

11-6-11: $16.00 on 2 cards at about the 10 mile mark of the NYC Marathon.

11-1-11: $15.00

10-23-11: $10.00

10-14-11: $50 it has been a good few weeks and I have been riding for free.

9-25-11: $7 and a card that will last till 10-15 at the 7 mile mark of the NYC Marathon Tune Up.

9-20-11: A card that will last till 9-25!

9-19-11 $15 and bought $40, but I found a student card one of my kids can use.

9-5-11: This week I found about $5.00 but I had to BUY $40.00.

I Been finding less because I have been on the subway less often. Not because cards with value are any more scarce. However, now that I gotta start paying for my kids I can see paying for a fare in my future.